More inspiration comes from the Netherlands, where the rate of teenage pregnancy has dropped since sex-education classes were changed to let youngsters discuss the subject more openly.
As Linda Hirshman illustrated in "Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, " the gay rights movement has changed attitudes toward same-sex couples by applying these movement-building principles.
It's also worth pointing out that the national survey data was collected between 1992 and 1994, but Brines and her co-authors say that the relationship between sex and housework has changed little since then.